This paper proposes a new approach based on Bonferroni mean operator and possibility degree to solve fuzzy multi-attribute decision making (FMADM) problems in which the attribute value takes the form of interval type-2 fuzzy numbers. We introduce the concepts of interval possibility mean value and present a new method for calculating the possibility degree of two interval trapezoidal type-2 fuz...

Abstract As a fundamental data structure, graphs are ubiquitous in various applications. Among all types of graphs, signed bipartite contain complex structures with positive and negative links as well settings, on which conventional graph analysis algorithms no longer applicable. Previous works mainly focus unipartite or unsigned separately. Several models proposed for applications the by utili...

The amygdala processes multiple, dissociable properties of sensory stimuli. Given its central location within a dense network of reciprocally connected regions, it is reasonable to expect that basolateral amygdala (BLA) neurons should produce a rich repertoire of dynamical responses to taste stimuli. Here, we examined single BLA neuron taste responses in awake rats and report the existence of t...

In this paper, the adequacy of fifth normal form (5NF) in relational database design is investigated. It is shown that 5NF is inadequate because it does not generalise fourth normal form (4NF) and because it is equivalent to the very stringent requirement that every attribute is a key, a requirement that is effectively impossible to satisfy in practical database design. By restricting the join ...

In two experiments, we tested whether disparity and shading cues cooperated for surface interpolation. Observers adjusted a probe dot to/lie on a surface specified either by a sparse disparity field, a continuous stereo shading or monocular shading gradient, or both cues. Observers' adjustments were very consistent with disparity information but their adjustments were much more variable with sh...

In this paper we discuss our results from the 2006 NTCIR-6 CLQA task, subtasks 2a and 2b. We describe our language independent, data-driven approach to Japanese language question answering and our new document retrieval and answer projection method which resulted in a small performance gain in comparison to earlier approaches. Using this method, we achieve a formal run score of 0.17 for the top...

Databases sometimes have keys besides those pre-planned by the database designers. These are easy to discover given functional dependencies in the data. These superfluous keys are convenient if a user wishes to add data to a projection of the database. A key can be chosen that minimizes the attributes the user must edit. In a list format view, enough attribute columns are added to those specifi...

Social networks collected by historians or sociologists typically have a large number of actors and edge attributes. Applying social network analysis (SNA) algorithms to these networks produces additional attributes such as degree, centrality, and clustering coefficients. Understanding the effects of this plethora of attributes is one of the main challenges of multivariate SNA. We present the d...

A significant obstacle to developing high performance Deep Learning algorithms for Automated Threat Detection (ATD) in security X-ray imagery, is the difficulty of obtaining large training datasets. In our previous work, we circumvented this problem for ATD in cargo containers, using Threat Image Projection and data augmentation. In this work, we investigate whether data scarcity for other moda...